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Sixth Grade
Lesson 6.1: Creating the Classroom Climate for Sixth Grade
Students construct a safe environment for information exchange and questions by establishing classroom agreements and expectations.
Lesson 6.2: Communication and Refusal Skills
Students discuss the importance of active listening and clear communication. Students model assertive communication and refusal skills using role-play scenarios.
Lesson 6.3: Relationships and Boundaries
Students brainstorm qualities of healthy and unhealthy relationships. Students establish personal boundaries and rehearse responses to inappropriate behavior.
Lesson 6.4: Male Anatomy and Reproduction
Students identify key parts of the male anatomy and explain the relationship between anatomy and reproduction.
Lesson 6.5: Female Anatomy and Reproduction
Students identify key parts of the female anatomy and explain the relationship between anatomy and reproduction.
Lesson 6.6: Puberty
Students identify emotional and physical changes for males and females in puberty and discuss common feelings that emerge in puberty.
Lesson 6.7: Abstinence
Students describe consequences of unhealthy behaviors, including drug and alcohol use and unprotected sexual activity. Students name reasons why abstinence is a healthy choice for sixth graders.
Lesson 6.8: Decision Making and Values
Students examine how personal values inform decision making and apply a decision-making model to realistic scenarios.
Lesson 6.9: Sixth-Grade Conclusion and Review
Students review information from the course and demonstrate refusal skills as they relate to abstinence and healthy decision making.
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Seventh Grade
Lesson 7.1: Creating the Classroom Climate for Seventh Grade
Students construct a safe environment for information exchange and questions by establishing classroom agreements and expectations. Students also review key anatomy terms and apply the decision-making model to a realistic scenario.
Lesson 7.2: Media Literacy and Sexuality
Students identify ways in which the media promotes myths about sexual behavior. Students analyze messages about sexuality in advertisements.
Lesson 7.3: Sexual Identity
Students distinguish between myths and facts regarding sexual orientation and discuss LGBTQ identities in a respectful manner.
Lesson 7.4: Creating a Safe School Environment
Students describe the effects of bullying and clarify their personal values about bullying and harassment. Students rehearse and demonstrate ways to confront hurtful behavior.
Lesson 7.5: Deciding about Sexual Behavior
Students give examples of possible outcomes of sexual behaviors and explain how personal values affect sexual decision making. Students identify qualities important to them in dating relationships and list non-sexual activities for dating.
Lesson 7.6: Defining and Maintaining Abstinence
Students define abstinence and postponement and name reasons why they are healthy choices for seventh graders. Students identify positive connections between abstinence and completion of short-term and long-term goals. Students rehearse and demonstrate refusal skills relating to abstinence.
Lesson 7.7: Introduction to Sexually Transmitted Infections
Students name modes of transmission for STIs, including HIV, and identify the best ways to prevent STI and HIV transmission. Students list the most common STIs for teenagers and identify symptoms and treatment options for these STIs.
Lesson 7.8: Introduction to Protection Methods
Students name the protection methods most used by teens and identify pros and cons for each of these methods. Students list key steps for correct condom use. Students name places to obtain protection methods and identify resources for additional information and support.
Lesson 7.9: Seventh-Grade Conclusion and Review
Students explain the importance of communication in healthy relationships. Students name possible outcomes of sexual activity. Students demonstrate refusal skills and assertive communication for insisting on condom use.
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Eighth Grade
Lesson 8.1: Creating the Classroom Climate for Eighth Grade
Students construct a safe environment for information exchange and questions by establishing classroom agreements and expectations. Students also map available resources and apply the decision-making model to a realistic scenario.
Lesson 8.2: Healthy and Unhealthy Relationships
Students contrast qualities of healthy and unhealthy relationships. Students discuss the importance of respect and boundaries and create personal plans for healthy relationships.
Lesson 8.3: Addressing Obstacles to Abstinence
Students identify important qualities for maintaining abstinence. Students describe obstacles to abstinence and plan approaches for addressing these obstacles.
Lesson 8.4: Comprehensive Protection Methods
Students name various protection methods and where to obtain them. Students evaluate reasons people use or neglect condoms and discuss consequences.
Lesson 8.5: STI/HIV Transmission
Students classify behaviors based on category of risk. Students name ways to reduce risk and identify resources for support and testing.
Lesson 8.6: Living with HIV
Students identify issues faced by people living with HIV and refute common myths about HIV.
Lesson 8.7: Refusal Skills
Students discuss ways to refuse and be respected. Students rehearse and demonstrate refusal skills in sexual contexts.
Lesson 8.8: Goals and Decision Making
Students describe personal goals for the future and examine how sexual decision making can create consequences that affect personal goals.
Lesson 8.9: Get Real Capstone Project
Students synthesize information about sexual health by completing a group media project highlighting a health message from the Get Real curriculum.
